Example sentences of "have [vb pp] to help [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every ache and pain , every common cold , every bout of indigestion , every headache , every broken bone has its emotional meaning , and has come to help us — if we will listen to its message . |
| 2 | At last Robert Sheldrake said , ‘ Good veterinary nurses are sometimes difficult to find , but Dawn is an old friend who has come to help us out in our new venture . ’ |
| 3 | Hewlett-Packard Co is amongst Unix vendors Microsoft Corp has approached to help it develop a Unix version of Microsoft Mail : Microsoft expects Mail could be running under Open Look and Motif by year-end , though observers are sceptical given that a promised OS/2 Presentation Manager version has yet to appear . |
| 4 | If he has agreed to help them , he will also try to enter , but will vanish on crossing the threshold — called back to his stasis somewhere in the warp . |
| 5 | She was with the family when they were told that his body had been found and has tried to help them through their grief . |
| 6 | Mike Gatting has tried to help him , sometimes by being brutal . |
| 7 | And now he has returned to help them , through his chosen disciples . ’ |
| 8 | As Mary re-iterated to the police , she 'd had a job to wake her up out of a dead sleep that night , and when she did come to she just could n't take in what had happened : she did n't seem able to speak for ages and she 'd had to help her into her clothes . |
| 9 | I 'd tried to help him before . |
| 10 | If he had told Mrs Wilson this and even if she had believed him , she may not have wished to help him . |
| 11 | ‘ If only there 'd been more time , ’ said Kelly , ‘ I 'd have tried to help her work out a clear-cut characterisation , but we had a tight schedule and I left it up to her . ’ |
| 12 | He would have liked to help him out , but … |
| 13 | I would 've tried to help him out if we had a if we had a , a shot one with a case like , you know ? |
| 14 | ‘ We 've come to help you escape . |
| 15 | I 'm so glad you 've come to help us out . ’ |
| 16 | He had seen them from far away , and had come to help them , one of them in particular . |
| 17 | Bellybutton was McIllvanney 's foreman , and for a few seconds I dared hope that he had come to help us , but instead he told me that one of the bareboat thirty-three-footers was in trouble . |
| 18 | He was only a ten minute walk from Mauve , who had promised to help him settle in . |
| 19 | Erlich had offered to help them with anything they might shout for , and he had been turned down . |
| 20 | I had met her at the England-USA match in Birmingham and she had offered to help me with my career . |
| 21 | The qualities I had cultivated to help me through , such as diligence , such as dignity , such as keeping my peace , had been , after all , weapons which isolated me and made me loathsome . |
| 22 | My mother sat my daughter down and said something like , ‘ Look , I know your mother 's up to something , she 's sick , she needs help , we 've got to help her . |
| 23 | You 've got to help him … |
| 24 | MY DAUGHTER and her husband have got themselves into a ridiculous situation and , though I could happily bang their heads together , I feel I 've got to help them . |
| 25 | And we 've got to help them make it come true . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ I think we 've got to help them because there is still a lot of poverty and the potential is there for a social explosion , ’ he says . |
| 27 | ‘ You 've got to help me choose now , darling — would you like me in red , green or blue and white flowers ? ’ |
| 28 | You 've got to help me ! ’ |
| 29 | You 've got to help me ! |
| 30 | ‘ Oh , doctor , you 've got to help me ! ’ wailed the woman . |